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Weather and Water Investigation 1: What is Weather?
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Objectives/Concepts 1.Use weather instruments to measure temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed 2.Weather is the condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a given time in a given place. 3.Severe weather has the potential to cause death and destruction in the environment.
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In your notebook… 1. What is weather? 2. What factors would you need to consider if you were going to describe or forecast weather? **Turn to partner and share your thoughts
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Hurricanes http://weather.com 1.What is a hurricane? 2.What conditions are necessary for a hurricane to form? 3.What kind of damages occur during hurricanes? 4.What are some things people have done to try to lessen hurricane damage?
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Meteorology? What is it?
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If time… Read Naming Hurricanes in green book pg. 3-4
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Weather and Water Investigation 1 Part 2
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Mission Use weather instruments to measure temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed over the next 8 days Each group of 4-5 students will go at the beginning of every Science class and record the data in notebook
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Weather-Data Resources http://www.wunderground.com http://www.wunderground.com Read “Weather Tools” pg 5 List each instrument and what they measure in notebook **Take instruments outside and explore **Take instruments outside and explore
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Data Sheet Class 1 http://www.fossweb.com/modulesMS/kit_multi media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls http://www.fossweb.com/modulesMS/kit_multi media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls
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Data Sheet Class 2 http://www.fossweb.com/modulesMS/kit_multi media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls http://www.fossweb.com/modulesMS/kit_multi media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls
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Severe Weather pgs. 69-76 Create a Tree Map with 9 branches (the main sections of the reading) answer the questions what, where and example
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